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Subjects : Duties, Taxes, Bates, and Imposts. —There shall be reciprocal liberty of commerce and navigation between the subjects of tho two High Contracting Parties; and the subjects of the two Sovereigns respectively shall not pay in the ports, harbours, roads, cities, towns, or placos whatsoever in either kingdom, any other or higher duties, taxes, rates, or imposts, under whatsoever names designated or included, than those which are there paid by the subjects or citizens of the most favoured nation. (Article IV.) Import and Export Duties : Produce and Manufactures. —No duty of Customs or other impost shall be charged upon any goods the produce of the one country, upon importation by sea or by laud from that country into the other, higher than the duty or impost charged upon goods of the same kind the produce of and imported from any other country. (Article IV.) and Prohibitions. —And no duty, restriction, or prohibition shall be imposed upon the importation and exportation from one country to the other of the goods and produce of each, which shall not be imposed upon goods of the same kind when imported from or exported to any other country. Subjects : Favours, Privileges, and Immunities. —And Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Her Majesty the Queen of Portugal, do hereby bind and engage themselves, their heirs and successors, not to grant any favour, privilege, or immunity, in matters of commerce and navigation, to the subjects or citizens of any other State, which shall not also and at the same time be extended to the subjects of the other High Contracting Party gratuitously if the concession in favour of that other State shall have been gratuitous, and on giving as nearly as possible the same compensation or equivalent if the concession shall have been conditional. (Article IV T.) Monopolies, Contracts, and Exclusive Privileges.—Her Majesty the Queen of Portugal engages that the commerce of British subjects within the Portuguese dominions shall not be restrained, interrupted, or otherwise affected by the operation of any monopoly, contract, or exclusive privilege of sale or purchase whatsoever; but that the subjects of the United Kingdom shall have free and unrestrained permission tobbu r from and sell to whomsoever they please, and in whatever form and manner may be agreed upon between the purchaser and seller, without being obliged to give any preference or favour in consequence of any such monopoly, contract, or exclusive privilege of sale and purchase ; and Her Britannic Majesty engages that a like exemption from restraint, in respect to purchases or sales, shall bo enjoyed by the subjects of Her Most Faithful Majesty trading to or residing in the United Kingdom. (Article XV.) Douro Wine Trade. —But it is distinctly to be understood that the present article shall not be interpreted as affecting the special regulations now in force, or which may hereafter bo enacted, with a view solely to the encouragement and amelioration of the Douro wine trade (it being always understood that British subjects shall in respect of the said trade be placed on the same footing as Portuguese subjects). (Article XV.) Salt of St. Übes. —Or with regard to the exportation of the salt of St. Übes. (Article XV.) Ivory, Urzela, Gold-dust, Soap, Ounpoioder, and Tobacco. —This article does not invalidate the exclusive right possessed by the Crown of Portugal, within its own dominions, to the farm for the sale of ivory, urzela, gold-dust, soap, gunpowder, and tobacco, for home consumption; provided, however, that should the above-mentioned articles generally or separately ever become articles of free commerce within the dominions of Her Most Faithful Majesty, the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty shall be permitted to traffic in them as freely and on the same footiug as the subjects or citizens of the most favoured nation. (Article XV.) If applicable to British Colonies. Ships and Cargoes {Direct Trade). —British ships shall be allowed to proceed direct from any port of Her Britannic Majesty's dominions to any colony of Her Most Faithful Majesty, and to import into such colony any goods the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United Kingdom, or of any of the British dominions, except such goods as are prohibited to be imported into such colony, or which are admitted into it only from the dominions of Her Most Faithful Majesty ; and such British ships, and such goods so imported in them, shall bo liable in such, colony of Her Most Faithful Majesty to no higher or other duties and charges than would be there payable on Portuguese ships importing the like sorts of goods, or on the like goods the growth, produce, or manufacture of an}* foreign country, and allowed to be imported into the said colony in Portuguese ships. In like manner Portuguese ships shall be allowed to proceed direct from any port of Her Most Faithful Majesty's dominions to any colony of Her Britannic Majesty, and to import into such colony any goods the growth, produce, or manfacture of Portugal, or of any of the Portuguese dominions, except such goods as are prohibited to be imported into such colony, or which are admitted into it only from the dominions of Her Britannic Majesty ; and such Portuguese ships and such goods so imported in them shall be liable in such colony of Her Britannic Majesty to no higher or other duties and charges than would be there payable on British ships importing the like sorts of goods, or on the like goods the growth, produce, or manufacture of any foreign country, and allowed to be imported into the said colony in British ships. (Article VIII.) British ships shall, be allowed to export from any colony of Her Most Faithful Majesty to any place not under the dominion of Her said Majesty any goods not generally prohibited to be exported from such colony; and such British ships and such goods so exported in them shall be liable in such colony to no other or higher charges than would be payable by, and shall be entitled to the same drawbacks or bounties as would be there allowable on, Portuguese ships exporting such goods, or on such goods exported in Portuguese ships. In like manner Portuguese ships shall be allowed to export from any colony of Her Britannic Majest-y to any place not under the dominion of Her said Majesty, any goods not generally prohibited to be exported from such colony; and such Portuguese ships and such goods so exported in them shall be liable in such colony to no other or higher charges than would be payable by, and shall be entitled to the same drawbacks or bounties as would be there allowable on, British ships exporting such goods, or on such goods exported in British ships. (Article IX.)